My family had no money. NADA. ZIP. ZERO. I learned how to cook with the shitty cans of food no one wanted from the back of the food pantry. We all have high blood pressure because our food intake for six to eighteen years was basically solid sodium, all the time.
On class party days, the party frequently replaced lunch, which meant no hot meal for those of us whose parents couldn’t pack us a brown bag. Policies like this were othering, exclusionary, and most of all, cruel.
This is horrible. If they can’t bring food and you insist that they contribute, they can help set up or take down or, I don’t know, just be, b/c not everyone can bring something all the time, or even some of the time. School is supposed to include kids, not exclude them.
Stuff like this is so damaging to kids :( Not just for the kid being refused food, but as an example to the other kids in attendance, being shown that’s how to treat less fortunate people.
